Python does have some warts with like you said hashbangs but its still eons ahead of other similar languages in this regard (like Ruby) and that is a small thin

Python does have some warts with like you said hashbangs but its still eons ahead of other similar languages in this regard (like Ruby) and that is a small thing to relegate it in your mind to a 'beginner only' language, since tons of other languages do things much worse than Python does. Python's simplicity - which makes it appealing for beginners - is its core strength that had made it so widely adopted for so many different things.